2016-11-09 00:00:002016-11-09 00:00:00https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ca/resources/finance-accounting/how-to-calculate-what-to-pay-yourself/Finance and AccountingEnglishLearn about choose a salary amount as a small business owner.https://d1bkf7psx818ah.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/08214854/Self-Employed-Designer-Determines-How-Much-To-Pay-Herself-Versus-How-Much-To-Reinvest-Into-Her-Business.jpgHow to Calculate what to Pay Yourself

How to Calculate what to Pay Yourself

When running a small business, it is often a difficult decision to choose the amount to pay yourself. While there is no magic formula to determine how much to pay yourself, there are a few key points to keep in mind:

Focus more on reinvesting into your own business than taking a larger salary, especially in the business’s early years.

The notion of hourly wages evaporates. As a small business owner, you work all the time.

A good rule of thumb is to take a percentage of revenue or net profit, and increase that percentage as revenues grow. For example, perhaps you decide to take 10% of revenue as salary up to $500,000, then 15% after. If your business earned $700,000 this year, you would pay yourself:

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